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NAME

Mac::FindFile - Search Mac volumes/drives using native FSCatalogSearch API.

VERSION

Version 0.01

SYNOPSIS

This module allows you to search a Mac hard drive or volume using the native FSCatalogSearch API. This API, not related to the Mac's Spotlight system, does a fast search through the file system's indexed catalog, and can search an entire hard drive in seconds (as opposed to several minutes for a directory walk such as File::Find).

use Mac::FindFile;

Mac::FindFile::find("png", "/");

Because the search output can be quite large, it is written to a fixed location ("/tmp/mac_findfile_output.txt") so that it can be managed more easily. The file can be read into memory, or loaded more quickly with a module such as Tie::File.

use Tie::File;
my @searchoutput;
tie @searchoutput, 'Tie::File', '/tmp/mac_findfile_output.txt' or die; 

foreach (@searchoutput) {
print "this item is $_\n";
}

untie @searchoutput;

AUTHOR

Kevin Walzer, <kw at codebykevin.com>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-mac-findfile at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Mac-FindFile. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Mac::FindFile

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Prepared with the assistance of the Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator, http://www.swig.org.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2015 Kevin Walzer/WordTech Communications LLC.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.